A declaration of the cavses, which mooved the chiefe commanders of the nauie of Her Most Excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal
Subtitle: to take and arrest in the mouth of the river of Lisbone, certaine shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said citie : prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the ports and prouinces within and about the sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of Our Lord 1589. and of Her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie
Contributors: Beale, Robert, 1541-1601, author; Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921, former owner; Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976, former owner; Lyell, James P. R. (James Patrick Ronaldson), b. 1871, former owner
Publisher: Imprinted by the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie
Published: 1589
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Pamphlets; History
Other titles: Declaration of the causes which mooved the chiefe commanders of the navie
Description: A justification of the seizure of Hansa ships during the 1589 expedition against Spain and Portugal.
Notes: "First edition in English of this official diplomatic document."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 200-201, no. 26.

Written by Robert Beale. Cf. C. Read. Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the policy of Queen Elizabeth, 1925, v. 3, p. 351, note 3.

Also published in Latin under title: Declaratio causarum, quibus Serenissimae Majestatis Angliae classiarii adducti ... quasdam naves ... in ipsis faucibus Ulissiponae, ceperunt ...

Signatures: A-C4.

STC 9196.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: bound in full morocco, gold filleted and stamped border, signed: Morley. Oxford; decorative endpapers; heavily trimmed; antique inscriptions on title page and foliations (389-400).

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: ex libris (bookplates): Boies Penrose, Boies Penrose II; (inscription) J.P.R. Lyell; illegible contemporary signature on title page.